According to critical thinker and author Werner Erhard, “Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements.” Transition. In Geoffrey’s Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” and the anonymous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the characters make agreements which establish the idea that every person determines their own outcome in an agreement depending on whether he or she stays loyal to it or not.
The ending of “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” is an example of a good effect when the knight keeps his word. In the tale, an old hag and a knight make a truce with the condition that the knight marries the old hag. Upon finding out this condition, the knight unwillingly says, “That I so promised I will not protest” (Chaucer 5). The knight is reluctant
The ending of “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” is an example of a good effect when the knight keeps his word. In the tale, an old hag and a knight make a truce with the condition that the knight marries the old hag. Upon finding out this condition, the knight unwillingly says, “That I so promised I will not protest” (Chaucer 5). The knight is reluctant